Example sentences of "[coord] it took me " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 2 | It rolled into a hollow and it took me half an hour to get it one yard back onto the road . |
| 3 | But the guilt would not go away : I omitted the incident from the log and it took me two years to own up to it . |
| 4 | I found that if I imbibed the medicinal stimulant too quickly , the pace of creative work ( and the typing ) slowed down , and it took me some weeks of careful experimentation to find the most efficacious ration . |
| 5 | My 100 metres time did n't improve at all that year , and it took me until September to better my indoor 200 metres best outdoors when I ran 21.6 seconds at Woodford Green . |
| 6 | ‘ It was an unbelievable move and it took me a few weeks to come back down to earth . ’ |
| 7 | And it took me longer to do that than it took me to do tapestry . |
| 8 | Ronnie Wood came over once and it took me three months to clean up the mess . |
| 9 | I remember when my husband was alive and we had a Sardinian couple with some unpronounceable name and it took me three months to teach her to make tea properly . |
| 10 | And I can remember one of my first patients I had to take blood from , and it took me quite a few goes on that poor lady but she 's still friends with me so she 's forgiven me . |
| 11 | I was caught in a group near the door and it took me some time to realise that I ought to be looking at the pictures , since that was why we were there . |
| 12 | The pamphlet was some forty pages long , and it took me half an hour to read . |
| 13 | ‘ But something had returned to the earth , and it took me with it . |
| 14 | Nothing major and it took me a minute or two before I could make out what it was . |
| 15 | and it took me as long to put the dinners up and clean the shoes and I thought well he 's swimming , so I got his togs and put 'em in his bag and |
| 16 | Well I studied an art class in the school and it took me twenty five minutes to walk from my house . |
| 17 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 18 | One set of typefaces that I like there are on the slightly goofy side are the Goudys erm and it took me a long time of , your know , hearing purists try to explain to me why before I understood the distinction . |
| 19 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 20 | I remember THE FACE coming out very well — but it took me two years to make the cover . ’ |
| 21 | Of course I called her Mum , but it took me quite a little while to accept her as my mother . |
| 22 | I knew I made a mistake , marrying young , but it took me a while to work out what was wrong . |
| 23 | ‘ I first met Julie when I walked into her gallery but it took me three years to walk out with her as my wife , ’ he says . |
| 24 | We 're talking about half an ounce , which does n't exactly sound like a weight problem , but it took me another day or so to take it off her . |
| 25 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |
| 26 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |
| 27 | But it took me by surprise . |
| 28 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |